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Last update: 07-10-2008 07:53

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse (money-benefits) from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years." The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic (1776) By Alexander Fraser Tytler, Scottish professor of history at Edinburgh

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Last update: 09-10-2008 16:06

“Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free.”

“I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.”

These are a few excerpts from Martin Luther King Jr. speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C. August 28, 1963.  I was about one and a half years old at the time of this speech.  I first read this speech in high school and thought it was one of the most moving speeches I had ever read.  Here was a man that wanted nothing more than to be judged on who he was not on what he looked like. We can’t go back and change history, nor should we try to rewrite it.  What has happened in our past is what makes us who we are as a nation today.  Do I wish that slavery never existed in this country?  You bet, but what was done was done and we need to learn from it so we don’t repeat it.  It’s a black eye on this nation and I’m thankful for men like Martin Luther King Jr, who had the courage to point out to a nation the injustice that was still going on in the country at that time.

Last update: 07-12-2008 00:00

Many conservatives are up in arms regarding the charge that President-elect
Barack Obama may not have been born in the United States and is, therefore,
not qualified under the U.S. Constitution to be President of the United
States.

Article. II. Section. 1. of the U.S. Constitution states, "No Person except
a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of
the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of
President . . . ." Some accuse Mr. Obama of not being born in the State of
Hawaii as claimed, but in Kenya, Africa. Several people have filed various
lawsuits challenging Mr. Obama's U.S. citizenship.

Last update: 09-12-2008 00:00

The ongoing financial crash was caused by overleveraging at all levels of society, from Wall Street to Main Street to the slums. The initial cause, however, was the popping of the subprime mortgage bubble.

At their bubblicious peak, American homes were theoretically worth $24 trillion. The amount of wealth that has evaporated in the popping of the American real estate bubble so far appears to be in the $5 trillion range, to pick a very round number. The blogger Dr. Housing Bubble recently estimated the loss to be $4.68 trillion using Case-Shiller data. Another source estimates $6 trillion. And we haven't necessarily hit bottom yet. So the wealth loss already amounts to a quarter to a third of US GDP—greatly magnified, and spread around the world, by the simultaneous metastasizing of poorly-understood financial derivatives.

Last update: 17-10-2008 05:41

The argument about abortion has hit a new low at least were I’m concerned.  Abortion is health care?  What is there about carrying a baby to term is unhealthy for a woman?  What percentage of woman is risking their health by carrying a baby to term?  According to the Guttmacher Institute, nationwide about 7.14% of abortions are sought for health reasons.  That means 92.86% of pregnant woman are choosing abortion for reasons other than health.

Last update: 01-09-2008 06:55

The 2008 election season is in full swing.  The Lamestream media has its two big box party nominees in place, and all is right with the world.  We can all just go about our business as usual and know that we are going to be served by the best people possible.  Right?

            Let take a look at that for a minute.  Who is serving who?  If you look at the Obama campaign, it’s not we the people.  You can look at any major issue facing the American people today, and you will not find one solution from the Obama camp that does not pander to a special interest groups, violates the U.S. Constitution, or take and usurp more of our freedoms and liberties! 

Last update: 06-07-2008 14:43